Topic: generation x

The editorial writers have been debating which generation has it worst: millennials, Gen X or baby boomers?

Is it the millennials because they graduated from college into the Great Recession with no jobs and loads of student debt, which I wrote about in my column? Is it Generation X, who may be left holding the bag on Social Security, as Jonathan Martin suggested in his column? Or are baby boomers, as Bruce Ramsey outlined in his blog post, just as worse off as everybody else?

The discussion prompted a secondary debate about which movie best represented each generation. These are our nominations, with trailers:

Jonathan, I am 20 years older than you, and I read your column with interest. I agree with much of it. My generation did benefit from rising real estate, at least, the ones of us who bought real estate. We did benefit from low-cost public colleges, at least, those of us who went to class….